Creative environmental nonprofit Do The Green Thing has partnered with 23 celebrated artists and designers to create a poster a day, for 23 consecutive days, until Earth Hour 2013. All posters are available as prints, with proceeds benefiting the DTGT charity.
Pair this one, by Tom Uglow, with a case for the walkable city.
The science is real. Not a single scientific body in the world disputes it.
Al Gore launches Reality Drop at TED 2013, using social game dynamics to promote scientific truth and dispel climate change denial.
Take, for instance, product manufacturing. A Styrofoam cup will be used once for about four or five minutes before being thrown away. The turnover time of the industry that purchases that cup is going to be a couple weeks or a couple months, at most. Those are the time scales that that object is created for. However, the refuse of that Styrofoam cup will last for millions of years, because it’s not biodegradable. What does it mean to live at a historical moment in which the time scales that we operate on are so radically out of touch with the time scales of the temporal footprint of the things we make?
Nature took tens of millions of years to make petroleum, but we’ve used up the best of it in less than 200.
Fantastic motion graphics animation on the truth about peak oil and fracking.
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In the face of persistent drought and repeated power outages, this wonderfully animated PSA reminds Californians to turn their lights off.
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New environmental PSA posters from Shepard Fairey’s studio, produced for nonprofit Keep A Breast, encourage young people to be more mindful of the toxic substances in their daily lives in an effort to reduce the impact of environmental diseases.
Wonderful animated short to raise awareness about overfishing.
The Lexicon of Sustainability – lovely multimedia project based on a simple premise: people can’t be expected to live more sustainable lives if they don’t even know the most basic terms and principles that define sustainability.